A daily journal from 76 years ago
313th day- 53 days follow Fiar + Warm Finished up the front drive gutters today. They look good now. Bud and Ski worked on their house today. Ski put her horse in the Briggs’ pasture today. Walder has gone to New York for a week to a convention of Bank officials. Eleanor and the two …
312th day- 54 days follow Showers in A.M. Fine at P.M. George and the kids were [here] this morning. After dinner Thel and I took a ride over to town and picked up Bill + Lottie and took them for a ride up along the shore as far as Scituate Harbor and back through Marshfield. …
311th day- 55 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair + Warm The last three days have been very warm for this time of the year, warm south wind, with the temp in the 60’s. Heard a lot of shooting this A.M., some on the shore and some in the woods. This noon Ralph Medcalf came in from …
310th day- 56 days follow Fair + Warm Worked all day cleaning leaves out of the gutters. This afternoon Cozy Barret came up the front drive. He was looking for the Greenough house. This afternoon Harry and Dimp came up the drive and stopped a few minutes, on their way to the Vineyard. Butterflies, caterpillars, …
309th day- 57 days follow Partly Cloudy light showers I got a letter from Jubbie today. He seems to be quite busy, and is in a transportation unit. The carpenters are sure doing quite a job remodeling John Morton’s house. Marie and Suzanne were [here] at noon. After supper I took a bus over to …
308th day- 58 days follow Partly Cloudy I got up at 6:30 A.M. to see who won. Doubtful then. At 11:15 Dewey conceded defeat. Bud was up this afternoon and started to lay his floor. On my way home from work I stopped in to see Pic and the boys. They, Eric, and David, are …
307th day- 59 days follow Fair + Warm This A.M. Thel and I took a ride over to town. We went in and voted. I got a haircut, some putty, and made an appointment with Dr. Wild for Nov. 11. Went up to see Bill Whiting. There was no one at home, so I think …
306th day- 60 days follow Partly Cloudy Put in all day picking up garden furniture and took out and put away the screens. Saw the quail today. I went down to Dutton’s tonight and put some shutters on the windows. They are leaving for Florida next Wednesday. Eleanor is going down to Mabbit’s to do …
205th day- 61 days follow Fair + Warm Geo. came down this morning and we took some of his and our trash to the town dump. I went with him up by Greenwood’s to look for deer racks, saw plenty there. Then we went up to the lookout and then we went up in the …
304th day- 62 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair + Warm This morning I went over to town with Harry. He went to a Director’s meeting of the Plantation Project. I took a walk down to the new plantation house. It is just now finished and the yard cleaned. The directors all came down and looked it …
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